[plug] How do you unzip files under linux.

[Shane & or Joanne Cunard]

Excuse me for spotting this but your machines date maybe slipping as
according to the date stamps on the messages quoted below you replied to the
message before it was sent ;-)

Peter Caffin wrote:

> David Buddrige wrote:
> > have tried commands like unzip or pkunzip but neither seem to work...
> > apropos zip returns "nothing appropriate"... can anyone give me a
> > hand?
>
> Hi David.
>
> Unzip is the one to go for, though you might not have the same unzip
> program I have on my Slackware box.  Mine came with the distribution,
> but, I hope the following output will at least help you to find the
> right package on Hotbot or Altavista:
>
> --------8<--------------------------------------8<------------------
>
> UnZip 5.20 of 30 April 1996, by Info-ZIP.  Maintained by Greg Roelofs.
> Send
> bug reports to the authors at Zip-Bugs at wkuvx1.wku.edu; see README for
> details.
>
> Usage: unzip [-Z] [-opts[modifiers]] file[.zip] [list] [-x xlist] [-d
> exdir]
>   Default action is to extract files in list, except those in xlist, to
> exdir;
>   file[.zip] may be a wildcard.  -Z => ZipInfo mode ("unzip -Z" for
> usage).
>
>   -p  extract files to pipe, no messages     -l  list files (short
> format)
>   -f  freshen existing files, create none    -t  test compressed archive
> data
>   -u  update files, create if necessary      -z  display archive comment
>   -x  exclude files which follow (in xlist)  -d  extract files into
> exdir
>
> modifiers:                                   -q  quiet mode (-qq =>
> quieter)
>   -n  never overwrite existing files         -a  auto-convert any text
> files
>   -o  overwrite files WITHOUT prompting      -aa treat ALL files as text
>   -j  junk paths (don't make directories)    -v  be verbose/print
> version info
>   -C  match filenames case-insensitively     -L  make (some) names
> lowercase
>   -X  restore UID/GID info                   -V  retain VMS version
> numbers
>                                              -M  pipe through "more"
> pager
> Examples (see unzip.doc for more info):
>   unzip data1 -x joe   => extract all files except joe from zipfile
> data1.zip
>   unzip -p foo | more  => send contents of foo.zip via pipe into program
> more
>   unzip -fo foo ReadMe => quietly replace existing ReadMe if archive
> file newer
>
> --------8<--------------------------------------8<------------------
>
> I've successfully used this program to unzip the DOS distribution files
> for Legacy DOOM (the project running that's updating the DOOM game for
> the 90s -- very swish; I hope they do a port to X :)) while under Linux
> without any dramas.
>
> Peter.
> --:     _         ___  _    _ _
>  _oo__ |_|_ |__  _ |  |  _ |_|_' _  pc at it dot net dot a u |
> //`'\_ | (/_|(/_| .|. |_(_|| | || |            it.net.au/~pc |
> /                    PO Box 869, Hillarys WA 6923, AUSTRALIA |


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: vcard.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 225 bytes
Desc: Card for Shane & or Joanne Cunard
URL: <http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/plug/attachments/19980831/24ca807d/attachment.vcf>